Posts Tagged ‘funny’

Self referential references

Friday, March 29th, 2013

So I need to come up with a name for a phenomena I've observed.

Basically I tell my students at the start of the practical the same things. Check the marking scheme, don't forget to talk about errors, work quickly.

Inevitably they ignore me and forgot to talk about errors, so I started telling the students. Check the marking scheme, don't forget to talk about errors, work quickly. I tell all the other students this and they usually fail, so maybe you'll be different.

Inevitably they think I'm joking or something, and they do poorly. So I started telling the students. Check the marking scheme, don't forget to talk about errors, work quickly. I tell all the other students this and they usually fail, and I tell them what I've just told you now and they usually fail, so maybe you'll be different.

So we can really just state it's

Message Content. + self referencing warning

I need to print something like that out for my students and just show them what happens 🙂

Update 3

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

So I haven't touched this in over a year. Figured I might give it another try. Here is the latest fun game from Something Awful.

Open Paint. Close Eyes. Draw Cat. Post Result.

As you can see, I'm terrible but it's funny 🙂

Entry, the second

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Check your garage ey?